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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Dem pollster Stan Greenberg says that the relentless attacks on Obamacare are a "trap" for the GOP in 2014. The problem is that it can't win them enough votes to gain any traction. "This issue is evenly divided," he says. "The idea that healthcare is their route to winning here, I think, will come out against them." All it will do is signal gridlock to the voters.

Prosecutors let George Zimmerman walk again, because he's only shot a teenager dead and threatened his girlfriend with a shotgun. Really, what's the worst that could happen, right? If you want to commit violent crimes and get away with them, it really looks like Florida's the place for you. No wonder Dexter was set there.

Meanwhile, in people who aren't fucking stupid about guns news: gun safety groups take a page from the anti-apartheid movement as a new tactic to reduce the influence of the gun lobby: divestment. They obviously put profits above people, so hit them where they live -- cut off the money supply.

A supposedly centrist group called Third Way would like you to believe they're just a group of sensible, middle-of-the-road types who want to end partisan extremism. What they are is actually a front group for Wall Street and the 1%. Keep that in mind the next time some centrist group tries to tell you how reasonable they are -- there is no one who is without an ideology and people who want to "end partisanship" generally just want to cut off debate and shut somebody up. It's just concern-trolling. In Third Way's case, the somebodies they want to shut up are Sen. Elizabeth Warren and progressives, who want to rein in Wall Street.

Finally, conservative media has a fascination with made up narratives about Pres. Obama's interactions with attractive white women. Needless to say, this rings a racial stereotype bell -- and rings it so clearly it's impossible to believe it's not meant to.